This Egyptian film poster was designed by Stamatis Vassiliou and
Marcel to promote the 1956 95-minute Helmy Halim black-and-white
film The Heart Has Commands [al-'alb lu ahkam] starring Faten
Hamama with screenplay by Aly Al-Zarkany, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir
and cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed. Plot summary: A girl attending
a medical college was a poor orphan living in the Bulaq neighborhood
with her grandfather. The people in the neighborhood loved her and
helped her with her living expenses. She loved one of her rich
classmates at the college but he had no feeling for her or any sense
of her emotions. Meanwhile an undertaker loved her and was also
trying to marry her. The girl went to see a friend who owned a bakery
in the Zeinat Sedky neighborhood and told her the secret of her love
for her rich classmate. Her friend made a plan for her to get her
classmate's attention. The girl then succeeded in attracting her
classmate's interest and he promised to meet her at an acquarium.
There she discovered he had been gambling with his classmates about
making a hit with her, and she fled from him in sadness and
disappointment. However the boy's sentiments, which began in
frivolity, turned into true love and he offered to marry her. The girl
took him to her home and told him about her poverty, but he was still
determined to marry her. He told his father the rich contractor about
it, claiming she was from a big family. His father agreed to hold a
party at his mansion to introduce the girl before giving his final
opinion. There was an aristocratic family that wanted to marry their
daughter to the rich student by means of a speculative broker who
would make a plan to prevent the marriage. At the party the rich
contractor was surprised by the people of Bulaq who stormed the
mansion at the broker's invitation. He realized they were the family
of his son's fiance and his friends and he threw them out. However
there was a brawl in which the members of the bankrupt aristocratic
family tried to assault the contractor and his son. The girl's
friends intervened and the contractor agreed to his son's marriage to
the girl.